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"Mr President, in the last ten years, there has been a steady growth in temporary work in the European Union. This rapid growth is justified because temporary work enables companies to respond better to the need to be flexible and to adapt to the economic climate. The aims of the proposal we are discussing are:
to ensure that temporary work is a factor in creating jobs that encourage more stable and longer employment relationships;
to guarantee the rights and safety of temporary workers;
and to increase flexibility in the labour market.
The basic premise is to extend, at Community level, the principle of non-discrimination between temporary and other workers. The guarantee of minimum rights will make this sector more attractive and give it a better reputation, bringing to an end the prejudice against it that still exists.
This report is balanced and represents a step forwards from the proposal for a directive presented by the Commission and I therefore thank the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs from my own group for their contributions to it. This balance is reflected particularly in the definition of minimum Community requirements, leaving it to the Member States and the social partners to adapt these to the specific situation in their respective countries.
Other issues have been taken into account and rightly so, such as the guarantee of basic protection, the opportunity for women to reconcile family life with professional life and the integration into the market of young people and individuals with fewer qualifications. I should like to point out that, in Portugal, Article 4 is the provision that could cause the most problems: in fact, current national legislation contains a restrictive set of arrangements on this type of work in order to ensure that it is used only to serve employers’ occasional needs."@en1
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